Stellaria pauciflora
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Description
Annual herb.
Leaves broadly ovate, acute to cuspidate, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, petioles 0.5-3.5 cm, lamina ovate to narrowly elliptic with acute to acuminate, mucronate apex, 1-3 by 0.5-2.5 cm.
Inflorescence few-flowered, peduncles 3.5-5 cm, densely viscid pubescent.
Flowers viscid pubescent, erect, nodding after anthesis;
Sepals oblong-elliptic, 4-7 mm, obtuse.
Petals white, obtriangular, divided to the middle or less, about half as long as the sepals.
Stamens (5-)10, with filaments 2-4 mm.
Capsule ovoid to ellipsoid, 1-seeded.
Seeds lenticular, 1 by 0.5-2 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Mauritius present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa, Mauritius, Sri Lanka. In Malesia recorded from Sumatra, Java, Celebes, and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali).
Citation
Turrill 1956: Fl. Trop. Afr., ed. 2: 24
Briq. 1909–1911 – In: Ann. Cons. Jard. Bot. Genève: 378
Wadhwa 1996 – In: Fl. Ceylon: 57
Steenis 1972: Mount. Fl. Java: f. 7
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 211
Alston 1931 – In: Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6: 17
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 208
Hutch. & Dalz. 1954 – In: Fl. W. Trop. Afr., ed. 2: 129
Oliver 1868 – In: Fl. Trop. Afr.: 141
Trimen 1893 – In: Handb. Fl. Ceylon: 86
Miq. 1855 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 1055
Backer 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 82
Edgew. & Hook. f. 1874 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 229